Re: Placing margin notes on the left using Lua

[luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>]

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On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 5:14 PM, Hannes Riebl <hriebl@sub.uni-goettingen.de>
wrote:

> On 05/08/2015 01:14 PM, Hannes Riebl wrote:
>
>> That's good! Is there an option to use spaces instead of new lines
>> between the notes? And how about dropping irrelevant notes? Just to
>> provide some more information: We use margin notes to mark text
>> omissions. However, these notes should only appear for omissions that
>> span multiple lines. Any ideas how to cope with this requirement?
>>
>> Best regards
>> Hannes Riebl
>>
>
> I have finally been able to solve this problem with the following
> workflow: (1) Compile the document using Lua to genenate two text files:
> one that contains the lines and line breaks and another one that contains
> the corresponding margin notes. (2) Use Perl to add \margindata in the
> right places of the ConTeXt source code. (3) Compile the document again.
> It's hacky but it works. Anyways, guess it's been a very unusual
> requirement...
>
>
> Best regards
> Hannes Riebl
>
> Is it possible to have and see  an example ?


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